(August 4, 2005) The prospect of turning Africa around with aid and debt relief seem at best problematic, at worst a pipedream.
Vigilance special team to probe SNC-Lavalin case
(August 2, 2005) The government has decided to constitute a Vigilance special team to complete the probe into the SNC-Lavalin corruption case involving CPM state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan.
Special team to probe SNC Lavalin deal
(August 2, 2005) Six-month deadline for panel to submit report.
KSEB contract for SNC-Lavalin
(July 31, 2005) With charges of political corruption and kickbacks in the SNC-Lavalin deal mounting against it, the Kerala CPI (M) Secretary is on the defensive.
Guatemalan Maya, forced from homes, demand World Bank compensation
(July 26, 2005) Thousands of indigenous Maya people from Guatemala protested at the World Bank Tuesday demanding compensation for being driven from their ancestral lands by the blood-soaked construction of a bank-funded dam.
Red in the face
(July 25, 2005) A Rs 374 crore power fiddle comes to haunt the CPI(M). A CBI probe, comrades?
Canadian company contract haunts LDF
(July 20, 2005) Skeletons are tumbling out from the Left Democratic Front (LDF) cupboard in the form of controversial deal for power projects between Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) and a Canadian firm during the previous LDF rule.
Enough handouts for Africa
(July 12, 2005) Africa deserves more than the West’s charity. Africa needs a hand up, not a never-ending series of handouts that do little more than play to Africa’s weaknesses and provide the donors with a false sense of gratification.
KSEB-Lavalin deal draws CAG’s criticism
(July 10, 2005) A report by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India has noted that "there was serious deviation from prescribed procedures in the award of contract to SNC Lavalin".
The failure of altruism
(July 2, 2005) Well-intentioned efforts have failed to improve life for most Africans.
Increasing aid goes hand in hand with fighting corruption, says Oxfam
(June 30, 2005) In the lead-up to the G8 summit, African organizations and international aid agencies are calling on world leaders to see international aid as a weapon in the fight against corruption rather than an excuse to stall on increasing aid pledges.
Democracy not basis for World Bank funds
(June 16, 2005) Foreign financial assistance is not based on sound economic policies or genuine democratisation principles and inevitably contradicts sound nationalistic economic policies, claims an editorial by New Vision,Uganda’s largest daily.
A truckload of nonsense
(June 14, 2005) The G8 plan to save Africa comes with conditions that make it little more than an extortion racket.
Grant for cancer centre was SNC-Lavalin’s commitment
(June 12, 2005) Was there a commitment from the Canadian company, SNC-Lavalin, to provide a grant of Rs. 98 crores to the Malabar Cancer Centre; and, if yes, why was it allowed to wriggle out of the obligation?
Belize prime minister gets certificate of corruption
(April 27, 2005) Once again, students and union members in Belize City took to the streets beginning on April 20 to protest corruption in the ruling People’s United Party. When the PUP took office in late 1998, by an overwhelming majority, the vote was more a condemnation of the then incumbent United Democratic Party (UDP) than a mandate for the PUP. But, as in the U.S., the PUP chose to see it as a mandate to do whatever they wanted.
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